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Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour

A Novel

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A rollicking, unforgettable romance about two strangers finding love despite their best efforts as they embark on a sweeping matchmaking tour through Việt Nam, perfect for readers of Carley Fortune and Abby Jimenez.

What's a few weeks to a lifetime of promise?

Evie Lang's life is in shambles. On the heels of losing her beloved aunt, she's unceremoniously fired from her poetry professorship by her secret boyfriend. Lacking income and inspiration, she's stuck in Ohio with no idea how to move forward—until hope arrives in a surprising letter.

Auntie Hảo left Evie the deed to her San Francisco row house, a place full of Evie's happiest memories. The catch? To inherit, she must go on a pre-arranged matchmaking tour in Việt Nam. The last thing Evie wants is to spend time with a group of strangers looking for love. But she can't resist the chance to finally visit her family's native home.

A world away, Adam Quyền has a chip on his shoulder. He's working around the clock as CMO for his sister's elite matchmaking business, a job complicated by her insistence that he knows nothing about love. He's desperate to prove himself, so when she challenges him to join the inaugural tour, he reluctantly agrees.

Adam thinks Evie is chaotic and unpredictable. Evie thinks Adam is grumpy and uptight. But from the bustling streets of Hồ Chí Minh City to the soaring waterfalls in Đà Lạt, they keep getting thrown together, their animosity charged with attraction...and they discover that true love may be out there, if they are willing to take a leap.

Two stubborn hearts, one whirlwind adventure, Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour is a story of how loving (and living) bravely can lead you to the most unexpected places—and the most imperfectly perfect loves.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 8, 2024
      Nguyen’s heart-fluttering debut follows poet Evie Lang to Vietnam, where she finds adventure and whirlwind romance. Evie’s eccentric late aunt wills her niece her breathtaking California mansion under one condition—she must participate in the Love Yêu matchmaking tour in Vietnam and give real love a chance. Though Evie is unenthusiastic at first, she changes her mind when her cheesy “Ralph-Fiennes-wannabe” boyfriend betrays her and she loses her teaching job; besides, the getaway could be just the thing to get her out of her yearlong writing rut. The last thing she expects is to meet “Vietnamese Adonis” Adam Quyền, the brooding and irresistible CMO of Love Yêu. Adam is bitter from dealing with his own disastrous love life when stunning Evie literally stops him in his tracks. Though their connection feels like magic, they both resist it—after all, Evie has her life waiting for her in San Francisco, and Adam is weighed down by his family’s expectations that he uphold their reputation and company. Nguyen effortlessly guides readers through Evie and Adam’s exhilarating romance, striking a perfect balance between tender moments and sparky banter. Romance lovers and armchair travelers alike are sure to be sucked in. Agent: Abby Walters, CAA.

    • Library Journal

      July 1, 2024

      Growing up, Evie Lang found solace in her summer visits with Auntie Hao, who created a sense of community and excitement at the beautiful row house in San Francisco that Evie could only dream of owning one day. Now an adult, working as a struggling poet and college English teacher in the Midwest, Evie has had middling success in both her career and relationships. When her beloved auntie passes away, she leaves one stipulation in her will--the house belongs to Evie, but only if she agrees to love bravely by completing a matchmaking tour in their homeland of Vietnam. Enter Adam Quyen: CMO for Love Yeu, the matchmaking startup designed by his sister Ruby. He can't help but get distracted from his work when he meets a certain Vietnamese American, the outspoken Evie, who is nothing like the traditional woman his parents would choose. When his family, the business, and Evie's ex all collide at once, real love may end up evaporating. VERDICT In Nguyen's (author of Banyan Moon writing as Thao Thai) first dive into romance, she offers a sexy tale that has relatable characters and a lush setting.--Kara Kohn

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      August 1, 2024
      The chief marketing officer of Love Y�u, a Vietnamese tourism-plus-matchmaking service, is drawn to an Asian American poet on a luxury road trip. When Evie Lang's beloved bohemian Auntie Hảo leaves her a house in San Francisco on the condition that she go on a matchmaking trip in her late father's birth country, the recently single and jobless poet takes the plunge. Having grown up in the American Midwest with a white mother, Evie has never been to Vietnam, and her introduction to her paternal heritage has her lurching into traffic to save a rooster and being scolded by a motorbike-riding man who turns out to be the CMO of the tour she's joining. Adam Quyền is recovering from a failed relationship, working for his sister's startup, and trying to please their demanding parents. He takes a clinical approach to life, and Evie is an unexpected curveball thrown in his path. Despite their sexual and emotional chemistry, the two are grappling with insecurities both professional and familial, and their attraction wars with their financial, parental, and cultural differences. Written in third-person alternating points of view, the novel imagines how people from such different worlds and perspectives can find love and common ground. Nguyen, who writes literary fiction as Thao Thai, grounds Evie's manic-pixie traits in a sadness and self-consciousness that skirts cliche while giving the prosaic Adam chances to display his caring nature. Nguyen writes of Vietnam lovingly, avoiding exoticization by weaving details of the country's present and past (and its diaspora) into the trips Evie and Adam take together. Funny and emotional in turns, a love story set amid modestly rich Asians in modern Vietnam.

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